Annotation:John Morison's Compliments to Mr. Nathaniel Gow
X:1 T:John Morison’s Compts. to Mr. Nathl. Gow M:C| L:1/16 R:Strathspey B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 19) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_New_Strathspey_Reels_wit/Vo-EymUbJkYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22john+morison%22+%22new+strathspey+reels%22%C2%A0&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover K:D A,2|DD3D3F E3DB,2E2|D2D2D2F2 A2B2d2A2|BcdB A2F2 TE3DB,2E2|D2A,2TA,3B, D4 D2:| f2|a2f2d2f2 g2e2e2f2|a2f2d2e2 d2B2A2F2|(DE).F.G (AF).E.D TE3DB,2E2|D2A,2A,2B,2 D4 D2f2| a2f2d2f2 g2e2e2f2|a2f2d2e2 (de).f.e (dc).B.A|(Bcd).B .A(FTED) TE3DB,2E2|D2A,2TA,3B, D4 D2||
JOHN MORISON'S COMPLIMENTS TO MR. NATHANIEL GOW. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "John Morison's Compliments to Mr. Nathaniel Gow" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815.
Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer John Morison with this title pays homage to one of the most famous Scottish musicians of his time, composer, fiddler, bandleader, and music publisher wikipedia:Nathaniel_Gow.
